The professional Butler is associated with many tasks and duties. Being a bartender is one of them, as the Butler often arranges cocktail-parties and sets up the bar. Here are some basics every Butler and bartender needs to know. Bar setup: It is essential to be able to set up …
Read More »Traditional Butler Schools vs Online Butler Training
What do Oxford University, Harvard business school and the most prestigious hotel management schools in the world have in common? They all offer distant learning programs. It has been a hot topic for many years: can you be trained as a butler with a distant learning program? Immediately, the conservative …
Read More »Butler Training: Fast Track To A Private Service Career?
Is it really essential to enrol in a butler training programme to ‘become’ a butler? The slight misunderstanding is that being a butler is not a job, but a lifestyle. So, what training can make you change your lifestyle? That is a big goal to live up to. Let us …
Read More »Being a Butler: Then & Now
Imagine the Butler as you often see portrayed on Television or in the movies. The scenery from the 1800’s or the early 1900 decades, being a Butler was always very serious – Dressed in a waistcoat with grey striped trousers and a bow-tie – Usually one from the older generation …
Read More »Wine Management The Butler’s Way
Keeping a good wine logistical system like a private Butler does demands a specific set of skills. In a wine cellar or in a wine cooler unit, a proper wine management system is appropriate. Actually, it is a necessity, a must and an economical and protective way of keeping your …
Read More »How To ‘Manage By Wandering Around’ as a Butler
A Butler needs to know a lot about the household he or she is working in. The Butler needs to know the entire house; from the household maintenance programmes, through to the daily duties of the house and domestic staff working within its walls. Many UHNW households have an estate …
Read More »How to: Butlers and Wine
The wonderful world of wine, there are thousands of grape varieties, producers, connoisseurs, areas and bottles, and then, you have The Butler. The word Butler springs out of the French «Bottelier», the person or officer guarding the royal bottles. Royal or not, being a professional Butler requires a certain knowledge …
Read More »Private Service Careers: How To Become a Butler
How to Become a Butler In today's world, the Butler has become more than a private household employee. Luxury hotels, 6* cruise ships, superyachts, and private jets are also potential clients, as a lot of people choose to have a Butler as a right-hand person in much of their daily …
Read More »Maintaining and washing champagne & wine glasses
Wine glasses are delicate and require extra care and tenderness. Preparation, maintenance, and serious cleaning routines are essential. Butlers and headwaiters should know the proper way to clean glasses, it is a daily routine in a household or in a Hotel. Crystal is the most preferred material when it comes …
Read More »Serving & Silver Service
Serving and silver Service is one of the main tasks of a Butler, in privacy for the principal, whether on a dinner-party or on a Royal gathering. Serving and silver service is the primary task for the professional Butler, and it is crucial to be a perfectionist. Cocktail receptions, Guest-lists, …
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